Improvement in skirt-supporting corsets



SPPHIRA YOUNG "lmprvement in Skirf Supporting Corsets.

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SAPFHIRA' YOUNG, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK.

'IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT-SUPPORTING CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,808, dated November7, 1871.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, Mrs. SAPPHIRA YOUNG, of Elmira, in the county ofChemung and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedBust-Supporting and Skirt-Suspending Corset 5 and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing which forms a portion of thisspecification- Figure l being a front view of said invention; Fig. 2, aback view; Fig. 3, a side view; and Fig. 4, a view of the inner surfaceof the front portion of the same.

My said improved bust-supporting and skirtsuspending corset is composedof the back portion a and the front or breast portions b b, united witheach other and with the shoulder-straps c c, as shown in the drawing.The usual elastics d d are combined with the shoulder-straps c c in anyusual manner. The united portions a b b of said corset only embrace thebust of the wearer, while the rufied flap e, which descends om itsseamed connection therewith, loosely covers the hips of the wearer. Thenecessary breast-protuberances are formed in the front portions b b ofthe corset by rst cutting` the requisite number of slits therein, thenstitching lozenge-shaped pieces of the fabric into said slits, and thenstitching any desired number of elastic strips between the thus expandediront fabric of the corset and the correspondingly-expanded lining ofthe same,

substantially as shown in the drawing. A skirt or any desired number ofskirts can be suspended to the corset, and the upper ends thereof besmoothly covered by the ruffled flap c of the p same, as shown inFig. 1. The requisite number of loops f, attached to said skirt orskirts, are passed outwardly through eyelet-holes g, Fig. 4, in thecorset, and thence are passed upward and looped over the buttons h,which are located a short distance above said eyelet-holes and firm- 1ysecured to the sides of the corset. The rufiied iap e must besufficiently long and sufficiently full to smoothly cover whatevernumber of skirts the wearer may desire to suspend from the corset. Thebreast portions b b of the corset may be united with each other over theperson of the wearer by means of a cord, i, and the requisite number ofeyelet-holes in said portions of the corset, as shown in Fig. l. Thesaid eyelet-holes must not, however, be carried upward to such a heightas to produce an undue amount of compression over the breasts of thewearer, or to interfere with the easy, elastic, and graceful lit of thebreast-protuberances over those delicate portions of the female form.

The pressure exerted by the llacing-cord i should be such as to affordefficient support to that portion ofthe wearer between the hips and thebreasts, and also suiicient to support, without undue compression, thebreasts of the wearer. Said compression should also be sufcient toprevent the weight of the skirts appended thereto from resting tooheavily upon the hips of the wearer.

I claim as my inventionl. The arrangement of the eyelet-holes g and thesuspendingbuttons h, in the production of my improved bust-supportingand skirtsuspending corset, substantially as and for the purpose hereinset forth.

'2. In combination with the eyelet-holes g and the buttons h of saidcorset, the skirt-protecting ap e, substantially as and for the purposeherein set forth.

In testimony that the foregoing is a full and Witnesses A. B. GALLATIAN,C. A. CoLLnv.- (80)

